InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) [Paperback]

Sandee Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Visual QuickStart Guide | Publication Date: May 3, 2000

InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual 1.5 QuickStart Guide gives you everything you need to know to get up and running with Adobe's hot new page-layout program, InDesign 1.5. This cross-platform guide introduces you to the InDesign 1.5 interface, including the tool and palettes menus. From there you will learn how to create and navigate a document, work with text and objects, use pen tools, work with color, import and manipulate graphics, and work with long documents and styles. Once you've mastered these skills you can move on to more advanced topics, such as advanced text control, color management, and preflighting. If you are familiar with page-layout software you will find an invaluable resource in the last two chapters, which offer comparisons between InDesign and QuarkXPress, and InDesign and PageMaker. (Previous Edition ISBN: 0-201-35447-0)

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From the Back Cover

Everything you need to know to get up and running with AdobeÕs hot new page layout program, InDesign. This cross-platform guide introduces you to the InDesign interface, including the tools and palettes; how to create and navigate a document, work with text and objects, use pen tools, work with color, import and manipulate graphics, and work with long documents and styles. More advanced topics, such as advanced text control, color management, and preflighting are also covered. The last two chapters offer comparisons between InDesign, QuarkXPress and PageMaker.

About the Author

Sandee Cohen has been training in the field of desktop publishing for the past 11 years. The graphics curriculum coordinator for the New School Computer Instruction Center in New York City, she has spoken at many conferences, including Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and Thunder Lizard events. She is author of four editions of the FreeHand Visual QuickStart Guide and three editions of the Fireworks Visual QuickStart Guide, and is co-author of The Non-Designer's Scan and Print Book. She has also contributed to many graphics and computer magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (May 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201710366
• ISBN-13: 978-0201710366
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,480,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the ticket for this experienced beginner!, August 21, 2000

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Jim Guinness (Marlborough, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

Ms. Cohen's Quickstart Guide to InDesign was perfect for me to get a, er ... quick start in learning this sophisticated design tool. I write this as someone who's had lots of experience with other computer tools, but who's new to page layout; although I expect it'd be equally helpful to anyone who'd dare to approach anything as complex as a desktop page layout program.

The book's strengths, for me, are that it stays to the essentials (while including all of the essentials), is clearly and abundantly illustrated with screen shots, and focuses on a how-to approach with concise and consistently clear explantaions throughout. A perfect combination for me was to use this book to get started ... quickly ... and to refer to the Adobe manual and on-line help to research specific features in more depth.

Another of my favorite features is Ms. Cohen's informative, engaging and often amusing commentary in the chapter intros and sidebars. These lend a personal and welcoming touch to her deft and experienced treatment of her information-dense topic, and remind us that words can be fun, too.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Really Quick Starter, August 5, 2001

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L. Patterson "graphic designer and Mac wonk" (Rising Fawn, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

This is the best yet book in this series. It is arranged logically and begins at the beginning in simple English and takes one through the program step by step, each step building on the one before it and adding to your proficiency level. I have sat with this book and followed it exactly and I think that it has been excellent in getting me started. Now I actually know enough to ask questions and look things up in the index! It truly is an easily understood book and very comprehensive and if you have any prior experience with Quark or Pagemaker, it will be a breeze to get up and running with InDesign. This book is an excellent value and the one you should really buy first. I doubt you'll need any of the others after reading this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Next Best Thing To A Dummies Guide, July 28, 2001

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L. Patterson "graphic designer and Mac wonk" (Rising Fawn, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

This is my favorite book in the "Quick Start" series; as a novice typesetter and Adobe products users, I have them all. This is written in plain, everyday English, not tech-talk and begins at the beginning of the layout process with getting your first page formatted with margins and other variables. It also includes a quick start for Pagemaker and Quark users who might be more familiar with page layout programs. Numerous illustrations on each page help one figure out, among other things, what the buttons look like and what a baseline guide is. While InDesign borrows much from Pagemaker, Photoshop and Illustrator, it combines them into one program so one doesn't have to switch from one program to another to perform a task. This is my choice for InDesign books, although as the program matures, many others will surely follow. If you buy only one book about InDesign, buy this one. Aside from its' usefulness, it is an outstanding value, too!